Cassandra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHIH J KL MNON PQPR LSTS UVWV XYZY A2B2NB2 C2D2E2F2 G2CH2C| I heard one who said Verily | A |
| What word have I for children here | B |
| Your Dollar is your only Word | C |
| The wrath of it your only fear | D |
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| You build it altars tall enough | E |
| To make you see but you are blind | F |
| You cannot leave it long enough | E |
| To look before you or behind | F |
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| When Reason beckons you to pause | G |
| You laugh and say that you know best | H |
| But what it is you know you keep | I |
| As dark as ingots in a chest | H |
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| You laugh and answer 'We are young | J |
| O leave us now and let us grow ' | - |
| Not asking how much more of this | K |
| Will Time endure or Fate bestow | L |
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| Because a few complacent years | M |
| Have made your peril of your pride | N |
| Think you that you are to go on | O |
| Forever pampered and untried | N |
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| What lost eclipse of history | P |
| What bivouac of the marching stars | Q |
| Has given the sign for you to see | P |
| Millenniums and last great wars | R |
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| What unrecorded overthrow | L |
| Of all the world has ever known | S |
| Or ever been has made itself | T |
| So plain to you and you alone | S |
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| Your Dollar Dove and Eagle make | U |
| A Trinity that even you | V |
| Rate higher than you rate yourselves | W |
| It pays it flatters and it's new | V |
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| And though your very flesh and blood | X |
| Be what your Eagle eats and drinks | Y |
| You'll praise him for the best of birds | Z |
| Not knowing what the Eagle thinks | Y |
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| The power is yours but not the sight | A2 |
| You see not upon what you tread | B2 |
| You have the ages for your guide | N |
| But not the wisdom to be led | B2 |
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| Think you to tread forever down | C2 |
| The merciless old verities | D2 |
| And are you never to have eyes | E2 |
| To see the world for what it is | F2 |
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| Are you to pay for what you have | G2 |
| With all you are No other word | C |
| We caught but with a laughing crowd | H2 |
| Moved on None heeded and few heard | C |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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